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The Heywood WWII Letters - Part 13

Welcome back to part 13, this post covers the letters for June and July of 1944. Peter is still in South Rhodesia and is close to taking...

The Heywood WWII Letters - Part 12

Welcome back to part 12, it is now May 1944 and Peter is still in Rhodesia on a flying training course. He is having a lot of adventures...

The Heywood WWII Letters - Part 11

Welcome back to part 11 of the letters, Peter was just about to move camp from Belvedere to RAF Cranborne and writes on the 28th March...

The Heywood WWII Letters - Part 10

Welcome back to part 10 of the Peter Heywood war letters. Peter is at RAF Belvedere in Rhodesia to begin his flying training, he has been...

The Heywood WWII Letters - Part 8

Welcome back to part 8, Peter has now been classified a pilot and will be going abroad for further training, it must have been a very...

RAF Fauld Explosion 1944

At 11.11 on the 27th November 1944 two explosions occurred at a gypsum mine in Staffordshire killing around 71 people and creating a huge...

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